Gallery | Theater & Apocalypse

Exploring the notion of a post-apocalypse in which
colonialism has finally come to an end, and traditional groups are now
completely liberated.

“til death do us part - selfie : maggie & kasia, 2017”

In order for, my future to exist I need minds willing to accept the multifacetedness that is the human culture; To create cultural divisions based on physicality is a disservice to all that we are. In order for, this to exist there must be a breaking of harmful common miseducation, knowledge like “science” where survival of the fittest is reiterated but constructed to highlight differences and “better-ness" - creating divisions and minimizing the importance of all beings, humans must be valued more than objects or their physical traits and capabilities.

Louis Dalrymple, Puck,New, York, Jan. 25, 1899

Apocalypse: The Tragic Narrative of Human History

The tragic narrative of human history is sliding towards an ending. There is no way to reverse it or stop it. The question is, how can we live it to the fullest?

The Ohlone vs the Hearst Museum.
The history is decided and knowledge is controlled by victors. Thus, this paper focuses on how the victors, the system of museum, categorize Ohlone people as a product of past, who actually are faced with disrespect and detachment from the tribe’s belief by the victors in presence.

Space is the Place is a 1974 Avant Garde, science fiction film starring the prolific jazz composer and afro futurist space-cosmos philosopher Sun RA
Space is the Place contends with the “black condition in America” through apocalyptic motifs, framing the “end of the world” as a plane of existence that is ever occurring in the multiverse.
I will analyze the ways in which Space is the Place both affirms and rejects apocalyptic narrative traditions and tropes to critique the social constructs that work to oppress African Americans.

The paper includes disastrous thinking about the reenactment of past history and a solution with the inspiration of Marisol to suggest a realized equality of human beings without the hierarchy of race in an apocalyptic imagination or in a apocalypse. -Chia Yu Shih (Shelly). Shimohara, Hitomi

Religion is regressing in today's society. What will individuals abuse instead to fulfill their needs and mask their insecurities? I envision a futuristic society controlled by medication and censorship to protect people from fear and live in "peace." -Devin Guilfoyle

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We are all different but all the same all at once. Society has often conformed us to see differences between people in order to distinguish one from another. We see different individuals, different races, different classes, and different cultures. We frequently distance ourselves from those who are different from us and that is an indirect result of evolution. When humans first formed tribes, competition for survival between groups arise so we learned to single out those who did not belong in the same crowd as they might be a threat to our own existence. That same knowledge carries on with us to the present day. However, at the core of it, we are all the same – just human beings. If we disregard our phenotypes, all of us share the same genetic make-up and build that make us humans and not just any other animals. Individuals’ looks and personalities vary depending on their diverse backgrounds, upbringing and psychological characteristics. Two different human beings can be very similar, but never exactly the same. All other animals look very similar to their own kind. On the other hand, all of us have a distinctive look, even identical twins have their differences. Yet, we constantly chase after the idea of a homogenous society with a superior race. From advancing above the animal kingdom, humans fell in love the idea of world domination and the power it entails. Embedded in human history and the present is the story of colonization and the hunger for power. If we are to imagine an alternate future for humanity given that the apocalypse occurs, the most fundamental changes to the human world would occur in terms of ethnicity, nationality, and economics. Specifically, a post-apocalyptic future in the long-run would be more unified politically than the one today, less ethnically ambiguous due to racial interdependence, and economically interdependent due to necessity. To make this reality possible, humanity’s organizing principles for cultural production would have to dramatically shift away from the focus on individual power, personal economic gain, and national differences. Instead, these seemingly inevitable traits of human civilization would have to shift towards cooperation and the ultimate truth that despite race, socioeconomic standing, or gender, we are all ultimately similar and are stronger together.

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Apocalyptic visions of death can cause the erasure of indigenous communities through institutions like museums and universities. I will begin by describing my experience with museums in reference to the Yucatec Mayan community. I will then dive into the history of museums; who created them and for what purpose, to further understand these institutions and its motives. I will then break down the definition of “artifacts” and how the words’ connotation and connection to institutions, like museums, work against the Ohlone Tribe's fight to get back their ancestors bones and continue their cycle of death and renewal. I will then connect my experience, the history of museums, and the definition of artifacts to some of the readings we were introduced this semester like “Marisol” and “Adios Ayacucho” to comprehend the diversity of cultures that are branched under the term “indigenous.” The vast diversity under this indigenous branch can put into perspective the grand struggle that not only the Ohlone tribe is faces in the US, but how many indigenous communities across the Americas are going through the same struggle of recognition.

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Bailamos?

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Mass media, such as the movie San Andreas, offers rehearsal and preparation for Final Judgment. The idea is similar to the one in the script, Marisol and a painting by Pablo Picasso, Guernica, to represent a destructive reality to us human. -Kim Eunhye

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